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“All That’s Left of You”: Oscar-Shortlisted Film Traces Palestinian Family’s Love & Loss Since 1948

All That’s Left of You is a new feature film that looks at 70 years of Palestinian history through the lens of one family’s experience over three generations. Democracy Now! speaks with Palestinian American director and actress Cherien Dabis, who says the film is about “looking for meaning in grief and choosing humanity even in the most difficult of circumstances, which Palestinians have done and do every single day.

“Autocratic Power Grab”: Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, Deploy Troops to Minnesota

Following Minneapolis protests in response to the ICE killing of Renee Good, President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act Thursday, a move that would allow him to send military forces to the city. Trump’s comments came after a second person was shot by ICE following a traffic stop. “Trump probably sees this as a civil war,” says Baher Azmy, legal director for the Center for Constitutional Rights. “This, as we all know, is being leveraged as part of an autocratic power grab.

ICE Arresting U.S. Citizens, Using Banned Chokeholds: Explosive ProPublica Report

A new investigation by ProPublica finds over 40 cases of immigration agents using potentially fatal chokeholds and other moves that can cut off breathing. “These arrests are playing out around the country, and often in full view of cameras and witnesses,” says ProPublica reporter Nicole Foy. She also reports that at least 170 U.S. citizens have been arrested by immigration agents.

Harris’s Staff Questioned Whether Josh Shapiro Was an Israeli Double Agent

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro was already irritated by what he describes as “unnecessarily contentious” questions from the team vetting him to be Kamala Harris’s running mate when a senior aide made one final inquiry: “Have you ever been an agent of the Israeli government?”
The question came from President Biden’s former White House counsel Dana Remus, who was a key member of Harris’s vice-presidential search team.

SNL Aces the Heated Rivalry Meme

The reference points were readily identifiable: a chance meeting between characters from different worlds, a sport involving sticks and a flying round projectile whose nuances would be lost on the average American. Yep, Saturday Night Live was doing yet another Harry Potter sketch—but this time with a spicy twist.

America vs. the World

The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy made it official: The American-dominated liberal world order is over. This is not because the United States proved materially incapable of sustaining it. Rather, the American order is over because the United States has decided that it no longer wishes to play its historically unprecedented role of providing global security. The American might that upheld the world order of the past 80 years will now be used instead to destroy it.

I am here in the evening light

I am here in the evening light,
my eyes now white like the museum sparrow,
with a voice that no longer trembles: Remember the child.
I’ll visit as a songbird, a rabbit,
and lead you up the dash with the wind.
I waited for your permission, faceless,
and you gave it.
It was a terminal we both knew:
the open woods, a last request, an imposition,
the letter E.
The leaves narrowed the highway
and were full of water. You said so.
That is life:
the gray flattering the green.

‘Abolish ICE’ Is Back

History might not repeat itself, but the slogans sometimes do. And in the days since an ICE officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, some Democratic candidates and commentators have joined in on a familiar refrain. “Dismantling ICE is the moderate position,” Graham Platner, the U.S. Senate candidate in Maine, said in a statement on X. “If Trump’s ICE is shooting and kidnapping people, then abolish it,” wrote Jack Schlossberg, a candidate for Congress in New York.